Men's fashion is dreadfully boring, but one thing we used to have was a profusion and proliferation of different hats we could wear.

I know the m'lady meme and mall ninjas have forever cursed the fedora (as well as the actually, that's a trilby crowd), but those memes postdate the decline of the hat by several decades.

Currently, we only have baseball caps and beanies in common circulation, with impractical-for-sidewalk-use cowboy hats being the only extant outlier.

Does anyone long for the return of the hat and/or have any insight into what caused their decline?

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[–] 12 points 6 days ago (10 children)

A wildcard vote for the bunnings hat:

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 days ago (9 children)

    I'm listening.

    I've seen that style hate for gardeners, wide-brim straw hat. Don't know what brand name Bunnings brings into the mix.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (7 children)

    Ha, bunnings is home depot for Australia and NZ, absolutely bottom of the barrel in fashion, but high in utility

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    Straw makes a good hat for hot weather; cheap and breathable. Here in the US, we have Panama hats which look like Fedoras, but made with straw.

    And actually, shout out to all the Ecuadoran ladies sportig their fedoras. I don't know what that's about.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    Panama hats are actually from Ecuador, that's why ecuadorians wear them.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    Yes, but the ones I see Ecuadoran women wearing look like felt fedoras, no straw panama, but I could be mistaken.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Ecuador has a ton of different indigenous communities, but the hats you're talking about probably originate in Otavalo

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    It's part of a uniform--fedora, braided hair, sweater, long skirt, black shoes. I saw it a lot near Quito, but didn't get very far out.

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